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The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes
Haonan Zheng, Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao, Adrian Jenkins, Shihong Liao, Volker Springel, Jie Wang, Simon D. M. White
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The Voids-within-Voids-within-Voids (VVV) project used dark-matter-only simulations to study the abundance and structure of dark matter haloes over the full mass range populated in the standard ΛCDM cosmology. Here we explore how baryonic effects modify these results for z=0 halo masses in the range 10⁴ to 10⁷ M_⊙, below the threshold for galaxy formation. Our main study focuses on three simulations from identical initial conditions at z=127, one following dark matter only, one including non-radiative gas, and one additionally including the baryonic physics relevant in this halo mass range (cooling and photoheating). In the non-radiative simulation, above 10^(5.5) M_⊙, halo abundance and internal structure are very similar to the dark-matter-only simulation, and the baryon to dark matter ratio is everywhere close to the cosmic value. At lower mass, this ratio drops and haloes are less concentrated and less massive in the non-radiative case. Test simulations at higher resolution show this to be mainly a resolution effect; the expected drop in baryon content due to residual pressure effects only becomes substantial for z=0 haloes below ∼10^(2.7) M_⊙. However, gas is heated by reionization at z=6 in our "full physics" run, and this results in almost complete expulsion of gas from all haloes in our simulated mass range. This suppresses the halo mass function by ∼30 %, lowers halo concentration, and consequently weakens the dark matter annihilation signal by ∼40-60 %.
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